From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Per Bothner To: Quality Quorum Cc: GDB Discussion Subject: Re: Where is GDB going Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 23:41:00 -0000 Message-id: References: X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg00356.html Quality Quorum writes: > I agree that there should be a line in the sand, however, currently > it is way far to the left. If people have intellectual property and > trade secrets hardwired into their hardware, then they should be allowed > to protect these secrets from disclosure by writing closed library > obscuring details of their stuff. Of course they should be. RMS would agree 100%. But you're missing the point: if people make that choice, they have no right to expect a free ride from Free Software. What does Free Software (or the World for that matter) gain by making it too easy for people to keep their intellectual property secret? The whole point of GNU to encourage openness, not trade secrets. Anyway, discussion about the morality of the GPL are not appropriate to this mailing list. Concrete questions about the licensing implications of using Gdb remote stubs, probably ok, I guess. -- --Per Bothner per@bothner.com http://www.bothner.com/~per/